Comments about ‘Parry's power guide to Utah high school football: Week 6’

Here is a confusing thing about Mr. Parry’s system. Bingham was scored
121.2 in week 2 (no score was given for week 1). While their schedule has not
been great (Bonneville ID, Herriman, Valor Christian CO, Hunter, Granger) they
are 5-0. Despite that their score has steadily decreased to 119.1. A decrease
of 2.0.

Davis has beaten Copper Hills, Hunter, Taylorsville, Syracuse
(who I think is overrated despite their record), and Fremont. Their score has
fluctuated from a low of 96.2 (week 1) to 105.2 (week 4) to 102.4 this week. A
max increase of 9.0.

You want a great ranking...run up the score.
There's no benefit in the system for a team that just gets comfortable
leads, then plays their younger kids to help them get better. At least,
that's my guess.

Syracuse is not over-rated. If anything they are
under. They lost to Davis, one game and went from 2nd to 10th. yeah okay that
happens but why are jordan and alta still in their then? Not to mention Syracuse
just slaughtered Northridge and that didn't bump them up at all. And
northridge even gave #6 Logan a good game, it was within 3 points. And yet when
syracuse slaughters them nothing happens. If you want to talk about over-rated,
then lets talk about jordan. Jordan had a 3 game loosing streak, and i get that
they had a hard schedule but its just a little sad now. they are not the same
team from last year, same with syracuse. That's why I didn't mind the
huge drop in ranks. but syracuse is going to be stuck because even if they win
the rest of their games, theyll still be low ranked. The only way they'll
move up is if someone looses. (last year is the very first year syracuse got any
respect from the media. and then they loose one game to a top 5 team then boom
all respect lost) I hate it.

Parry ranked Syracuse 3rd to start the season.
I think he did that based largely on what happened last year. He did the same
with Jordan. I did not say Jordan was not overrated (I think they are too).

Syracuse has beaten 3 teams from 4A and struggled to score in those
games. And then you want to point to a 18 point win over a 1-5 team as your big
win? I'm not saying Syracuse isn't good. They are probably a top 10
5A school this year. I think they'll finish 2nd in Region 1, probably
running the table, and win a play-off game. They just are not #2 like they were
last year, nor #3 as Parry ranked them at the start of they year, nor #4 as he
presently has them ranked.

They are a good team this year. Last
year they were on the verge of being great. And they are overrated this year
because of what they did last year.

So, looking at this is seems that it has more to do than just
with wins and losses. It seems like its an algorithm that takes into account
wins, losses, margin of victory, record against being favored, record against
being the underdog, how many teams have beaten the team you just beat, how many
teams have lost to the team you lost to, etc.

For example...we gained
2.2 points for beating West Jordan...a team we should have beat and a team that
most teams will beat. However, we gained 2.6 points for losing to Bingham...a
team that most say we should have lost to and a team that most teams will lose
to and we kept it within 2 scores.

This power poll means nothing!!! Win your region games and that is it!! Why do
we care about one guys "formula"? Also who cares about the top 25? Win
your region, get home field and play on the Hill, that's it!

I understand that there is a lot of math and an algorithm that Parry uses. And
I very much agree with "Aces in the Hole". I just think that there is a
huge flaw in the system and I like to complain about it.

I think the
Parry system places to much emphasis on last year. That is why Jordan and
Syracuse were ranked way high in the preseason, and in the case of Jordan still
is. So you take this expectation that Parry has and if you live up to it and/or
exceed it, you are rewarded. If not you are punished.

Take Bingham
last week. Parry had them favored by 53.1 over Granger. They were up 42-0 at
half. If Bingham keeps going, the final should have been 84-0, but human
nature, sportsmanship, and the rules (clock keeps running) dictate that does not
happen. And since Bingham only won by 42, Parry drops Bingham from 120.4 to
119.1.

I think a system like this should be based more on reality
than on living up to the expectations based on last year.

Although I am enjoying the current season and I am very proud of our team in
Kamas (South Summit)it is disappointing that all the other 2A teams seem
to be going through rebuilding years. I believe this year just happens to be
South Summits year. And probably the next 2 years. With Manti and Richfield
moving up to 3A, South Summit has no competition this year. Having said that,,
South Summit has a ton of talent. Its just disappointing that they have no one
out there to showcase that talent. It would be interesting to be able to play
Manti again this year. and I would love to see South Summit play Duchesne. I am
told that a South Summit/Duchesne match was in the works but Duchesne did not
want to jeopardize there undefeated rescored... understandable.SS would
surely be on the top of that one. SS will be coasting to a state championship
this year and probably next. Oh.....despite our coaching... Go Wildcats!! Its
about time.

Guess I missed the news flash saying that East and Cyprus both got reclassified
to 1A.

All kidding aside, putting together this Power Guide is an
inexact science. It's sorta like national high school rankings. How do
you rank teams nationally that will never play each other....and likely will
never play a team within 5 states? You simply do the best you can, and as the
season goes on, the rankings seem to become more representative of what is
happening on the field. Oh yeah, and lets not forget, even the most nerd
friendly stat based polls get smacked upside the head when a true upset happens.

Regardless of the differing opinions, I love that high school
football is getting some love!!

@ ENJOY KAMAS, THEN GO HOME - Watch out for Gunnison. No, I don't mean in
the game this week, you'll destroy them. I mean if you win too much
they'll whine to the UHSAA to get you moved up to 3A so they can have a
chance to actually win something.

@Temp Yes I know, there are a few fans and school administrators that wine
when there teams consistently lose. But that's just life. Every school goes
threw cycles, ups and downs. but before they blame everyone else they should
really look in the mirror. I for one think playing bigger schools gives our kids
needed experience and forces the kids to play harder. We should have more 1A/2A
2A/3A 3A/4A etc. games. Maybe one or two in the middle of the season. But I
think SS will be 2A for a while. We just don't have the population to move
to 3A (yet), and I hope we never do.

Syracuse is overrated they had one good season and they got destroyed in
champions game Syracuse had a easy none region Syracuse got way more attention
then Fremont did even though Fremont went to state 2 but yeah its cool